Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor. From Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California, this region provides a compelling and comprehensive window into the major challenges and opportunities of the 21st century in their most extreme. Join founder and executive director, Wellington “Duke” Reiter, as he chats with subject experts bringing unique insights and new ways of thinking to reveal our collective capacity to create a more resilient future. <br /><br />For more information about the Ten Across Initiative visit <a href="http://www.10across.com" rel="noopener">www.10across.com</a>.
Ten Across Conversations
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Ten Across Conversations examines pressing issues impacting communities along the U.S. Interstate 10 corridor. From Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California, this region provides a compelling and comprehensive window into the major challenges and opportunities of the 21st century in their most extreme. Join founder and executive director, Wellington “Duke” Reiter, as he chats with subject experts bringing unique insights and new ways of thinking to reveal our collective capacity to create a more resilient future. <br /><br />For more information about the Ten Across Initiative visit <a href="http://www.10across.com" rel="noopener">www.10across.com</a>.
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Recent Episodes
July 24, 2026
From City Hall to Climate Bank: Financing Resilience with Chris Castro
"If you use low-cost capital, you don't need tax credits to make the economics work. That's what excites me the most about how to scale this thing up. [...] How do I help every other community bank get in the game of building their green lending muscle and thinking about resilience? And if we can do that, then we don't need all of the tax credits and all the incentives that everybody has thought we needed in this industry." <br /><i>— Chris Castro, founding director and chief sustainability officer, Climate First Bank</i><br /><br />Federal support for climate and clean energy programs is being dismantled, and the question of who will finance resilience has turned urgent for communities throughout the Ten Across geography. The money that flowed from Washington is thinning; the need is not.<br /><br />Few people have approached that question from as many sides as Chris Castro. He built Orlando's sustainability and resilience office under Mayor Buddy Dyer, then moved to Washington as a presidential appointee, helping stand up the Department of Energy arm created to move historic infrastructure and climate funding to states, cities, and school districts — until the change in administration halted the work.<br /><br />Now Castro is pursuing the same goal from inside the private sector. As founding director and chief sustainability officer of Climate First Bank, he is testing whether a community bank can finance resilience at a scale federal programs no longer will.<br /><br />In this episode, Ten Across founder Duke Reiter and Chris Castro trace that arc from city hall to federal government to mission-driven banking, and land on a question 10X is now taking up with its own networks: what resilience officers need to know about finance.
July 10, 2026
Translating Risk: Science, Communication, and the Future of Resilience with Steve Bowen
Among the diverse professional perspectives featured over the years, few have resonated as consistently with Ten Across participants as those from the field of insurance and reinsurance. Insurance is often underappreciated as a knowledge industry in everyday life—yet serves a powerful translational role, converting detailed observations about the physical world into applied economic signals that shape investment, development, governance, and the choices available to individuals.<br /><br />In this episode of Ten Across Conversations, host Duke Reiter welcomes Steve Bowen, chief science officer at Gallagher Re, for a discussion about how the business of risk is evolving in an era of more frequent and costly natural catastrophes. Steve's career has been defined not only by studying risk, but by helping others understand it. Combining experience in meteorology, broadcasting, and catastrophe analytics, he demonstrates how scientific evidence can become practical guidance for navigating the future.<br /><br />Their conversation explores why extreme heat, hurricanes, severe storms, and other natural hazards are becoming increasingly consequential across the Ten Across geography—not only because of a changing climate, but because of where and how communities choose to grow. Along the way, Steve offers insight into the roles of artificial intelligence and federal data in risk analysis, how insurers evaluate the emerging risks associated with land use, large-scale development, and aging infrastructure, and why insurability has become an increasingly important lens through which to understand resilience.<br /><br />As communities across the Ten Across geography face an accelerating need to anticipate and adapt to risks, often at challenging scales, the reinsurance industry's ability to quantify changing circumstances has the potential to do more than improve understanding—it can help build the case for action while there is still time to shape better outcomes.<br /><br /><br />Episode Credits<br /><br />Host: Duke Reiter<br />Audio Production: Louie Duran<br />Research and support provided by: Kate Carefoot, Rae Ulrich, and Sabine Butler <br />
June 18, 2026
The Water We Have: Data Centers, Growth, and the Colorado River Basin with Sarah Porter
As water scarcity intensifies across the Colorado River Basin, public attention has increasingly focused on data centers, AI, and the growing demand for resources in the Sun Belt. But are these technologies really driving the region's water challenges—or is the story more complicated?<br /><br />In this episode of Ten Across Conversations, host Duke Reiter speaks with water policy expert Sarah Porter about the realities behind water use in the American West. Porter explains why shortages on the Colorado River are rooted as much in decades of over-allocation and management decisions as in climate change, and why common assumptions about population growth, urban development, and industrial water consumption often miss the mark.<br /><br />The conversation explores the rise of data centers, the public concerns surrounding their water and energy demands, and the challenges communities face in balancing economic development with long-term resilience. Porter also offers a candid assessment of Arizona's water future, the difficult choices ahead, and why protecting groundwater, improving efficiency, and developing new water supplies will be critical for sustaining growth in an increasingly arid region.<br /><br />A thoughtful and timely discussion about water, technology, public perception, and the decisions that will shape the future of the Ten Across geography.<br /><br /><b> Relevant Articles and Resources </b><br /><a href="https://morrisoninstitute.asu.edu/kyl-center-water-policy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Kyl Center for Water Policy at the Morrison Institute</a> <a href="https://azwaterblueprint.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://azwaterblueprint.asu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arizona Water Blueprint</a> <br />Report: <a href="https://morrisoninstitute.asu.edu/copper-cattle-and-cotton-chips-and-cloud-computing-large-water-uses-central-arizona" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">From Copper Cattle and Cotton to Chips and Cloud Computing: Large Water Uses in Central Arizona</a>. (Kyl Center for Water Policy. February 2026) <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/arizona-becomes-bellwether-debate-over-data-centers-growing-demand-power-water-3804271" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/arizona-becomes-bellwether-debate-over-data-centers-growing-demand-power-water-3804271" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arizona Becomes Bellwether In Debate Over Data Centers’ Growing Demand Of Power And Water</a>. (International Business Times. June 18 2026) <a href="https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/arizona-data-center-tax-incentive-pause-signed-by-governor-hobbs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-report-state/arizona-data-center-tax-incentive-pause-signed-by-governor-hobbs" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Arizona Data Center Tax Incentive Pause Signed by Governor Hobbs</a>. (Bloomberg Tax. June 15 2026)<br /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/climate/colorado-river-drought-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tensions Are Rising Among States That Rely on the Colorado River</a>. (New York Times. June 15, 2026)<br /><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/06/15/groundwater-colorado-river" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Groundwater supplies in the Colorado River basin are falling fast. Is there a solution?</a> (WBUR. June 15, 2026) <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2026/05/15/water-houses-how-get-both-opinion/90035524007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a><br /><a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2026/05/15/water-houses-how-get-both-opinion/90035524007/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">What's more important, Arizona, building houses or water?</a> (Rhett Larson for The Arizona Republic, May 2026) <br /><br...
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